The Lazy ActionScript Developer’s Way to Stream Flash Video

04 Nov 2008
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Flash and ActionScript

In this final installment of my tutorial on YouTube hacking, I’m going to show how to build the FLV URL for YouTube videos and start streaming the FLV in your ActionScript application. As you will notice, this is very little work, because it is based on the streaming example in the AS3 language reference. I’m being lazy.

Conclusion

In this 5th and final post of the series I have shown how to actually stream the YouTube FLV. It was particularly easy because Flash already has everything you need. It’s a matter of finding the right classes and using them.

That wraps up the 5 part tutorial. Feel free to leave a comment if you found this useful or not. I’m also open for suggestions for improvements or other subjects for future tutorials.